LEONG KIM WAI v. BURNETT

No. 5128.

23 F.2d 789 (1928)

LEONG KIM WAI v. BURNETT, Immigration Inspector.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

January 23, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peters & O'Brien, of Honolulu, Hawaii, for appellant.

Geo. J. Hatfield, U. S. Atty., and T. J. Sheridan, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal., and Sanford B. D. Wood, U. S. Atty., and Charles H. Hogg, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Honolulu, Hawaii, for appellee.

Before GILBERT, RUDKIN, and DIETRICH, Circuit Judges.


RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of deportation entered in the District Court of the United States for the territory of Hawaii. The appellant claims that he was born in Hawaii in 1896, that he accompanied his mother to China in 1900, and that he returned from China and was admitted to the territory in 1916. The government concedes that a male child of the age of about four years, accompanied by his mother, Goo Shee, was a passenger on the steamship...

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